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  1. Re:And yet on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    He's always lying. He's a property developer, everything they say is a lie. This makes it easy to tell if he's lying, if he's speaking it's a lie. If you don't understand this you've never talked to property developers before.

    My god he's denied saying things he's on video saying, you can't be a bigger liar than that.

  2. And that clear warning might be because the FTC came calling. This is one of the reasons we need the FTC because without them companies start doing shit like hiding these types of conditions or costs until after the customer is signed up. The FTC isn't saying T-Mobile can't do what they did, what they are saying is you can't advertise one thing and provide another, it's called bait and switch and it's been illegal for longer than anyone alive in the US.

  3. Re:The story behind the story on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    The man had sex with at least one unconscious women (sleeping), I don't doubt much after such actions. There is no situation where I think having sex with someone that can't provide consent is ok.

  4. Re:And yet on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The same thing could be said of Trump.

      He routinely destroys small businesses by refusing to pay them (nearly every project he's ever done), he has zero empathy with any individual. He's so thin skinned that it's likely he'd start a war over a foreign leader insulting him and routinely uses his power, money and celebrity to damage those he sees as enemies. He's a bigot and a misogynist. He's also a compulsive liar so you can't believe anything he says he will do and you can only trust what he's done in the past. That includes not paying taxes, screwing every little guy he can (including fake real estate seminars that screwed the middle and lower class out of thousands of dollars), he routinely lies about doing things then doesn't do them, he routinely lies about helping people and doesn't help them. He's the epitomy of the silver spoon generation of chickenhawks.

    Given his actions and the fact he's a compulsive liar I don't know how anyone that's not a silver spoon can even trust him. Just like every time in the past he's claimed to be for the little guy then bent them over and fucked them good and hard he's going to do the same to his supporters this time. The only thing you can be sure of, Trump is for Trump.

  5. Re:And yet on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Our republic is structured in a way to prevent majority domination. The minority party is given power to block legislation for this reason and the design was such that compromise was necessary. But one side has decided that compromise is bad, that is what has broken the system.

  6. Re:First Amendment is not Applicable on Ecuador Acknowledges Limiting Julian Assange's Web Access (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Yes it does. The embassy is considered sovereign ground of the embassy owner, it's the reason the embassy can station their own armed military troops on the ground to guard it. This is also why a country invading the embassy of another country is such a big deal diplomatically. There is a process for the country to revoke the embassy but it's involved and will draw retaliatory action from that country on your embassy in their country.

    Honestly it's happened only a couple times that someone has invaded or closed an embassy since the diplomatic accords were signed because everyone but a few nutcases recognizes that diplomacy is important. And more importantly without an embassy in the country you have no way whatsoever to assist your citizens in that country or for your citizens to get visa's to travel to that country. Most people forget that embassies serve a very important role of providing travel visa's, something that is like 95% of the importance of the embassy because without travel visa's international business halts.

  7. Re:Why have ademocracy at all? on Project Include Drops Y Combinator As Peter Thiel Pledges $1.25 Million To Trump (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    I understand people are angry about Brexit but the something had to change and it was either Leave or get deeper embedded. The UK was never fully in the union, they didn't adopt the currency, they were only partially in other agreements. The UK was never a full member of the EU. This reached a head with the vote, either they needed to embed deeper into the Union or they needed to pull out. The half-in, half-out thing they had wasn't working anymore, particularly with EU plans for merging more laws and losing more sovereignty to the union.

    See the EU is only going to ultimately succeed if they merge into a federal type system like the US, but that will require ceding individual state sovereignty to the EU body. The UK didn't fit into this further merger, had they remained they likely would have damaged the EU by preventing the further merge that necessary to fix the problems that were created by the UK refusing to merge beyond a certain point. The UK has been the odd man out, they had to withdraw or they needed to cede sovereignty and go full in. The British people weren't willing to make the merger step so it's better for them to withdraw, ultimately this will help the EU even if it hurts the UK.

  8. Re:Wikileaks infrastructure on WikiLeaks: Ecuador Cut Off Assange's Internet Access (bbc.com) · · Score: 2

    Assange drove away almost all the volunteers with his dickish behavior and treating the wikileaks donations like a personal piggy bank. There are still a few volunteers, but the vast majority quit a long time ago.

  9. Re:Feel The Bern on Assange Internet Link Cut By State Actor, Claims Wikileaks (rt.com) · · Score: 1

    Lets be crystal clear about something. Political parties are like private clubs, they can and do run their club however they want. You might not like that, you might think that because there are only two viable parties in the US that they shouldn't run them like that but there is nothing wrong about it. It's their party and the members can run it however they want. The very fact that they let Bernie Sanders (who's not a democrat) run in their primary speaks to their inclusiveness even if they then worked to prevent his nomination. They were under no obligation to even let him run as a democrat, they could have easily told him to run as an Independent like he has for the last 20 years.

    If you want to fix this problem the most effective way would be to abolish the two party system. That would allow anyone to start a party with whatever rules they want but don't think for a second that the democrats or republicans for that matter need to run their party how the public says. In fact closed primaries where only party members can vote are extremely common, particularly with Republicans, it's the reason they typically nominate religious conservatives.

  10. Watch the video, it was a nervous laugh of a 27 year old lawyer who was dealing with a fucking horrible case. Here's a fact for you, people who witness and participate in such horrible things often joke about it as a way to deal with it. Cops make terrible horrible jokes about awful things because if they don't they will go insane. Doctors and nurses will make awful horrible jokes about medical things because otherwise they'll go fucking insane dealing with horrible and awful things all day long. Lawyers make awful jokes and laugh about the horrible things they encounter because just like the others its a way with coping with those horrible things. The state crime lab made a terrible mistake and threw away evidence, she HAD to use that to get the evidence thrown out and as a result a rapist got a significantly reduced sentence and she dealt with it by joking about how guilty he was to try to deal with being forced to represent this guy.

    She didn't volunteer to defend the guy she was assigned to the case, she did everything she was obligated to (because otherwise the guy could have got a new trial and thrown out MORE evidence). In the 70's when this occurred what she did as a defense lawyer was common in rape cases, had she not done these things he could have claimed incompetent representation and gotten a new trial. There was no psychological exam, she requested one as any lawyer at the time would have but the judge denied it. The victim in this case had nothing negative to say about Clinton until she was paid $2500 by Trump associates to show up to the debate.

    It's amazing how the echo chamber distorted this, I suggest you go to popehat and read what republican actual lawyers said about it, in that she did nothing any other lawyer wouldn't have done and she had to do the case or give up her career.

  11. Re:Expect conservative meltdown. on Google News Introduces Fact Check Feature -- Just In Time For the US Election (thenextweb.com) · · Score: -1, Flamebait

    There is no question that both political parties are guilty of ignoring facts and even science if it doesn't fit their agenda.

    But people need to acknowledge that the Trump campaign is significantly different than anything in the past. He will outright lie about things that are obvious lies (and does so repeatedly even after being fact checked and shown that he's lying), even in the face of video and other irrefutable evidence that he did exactly what he's denying. We've never had a candidate for president in this country that so willingly disregards facts and outright lies so often about even insignificant things.

    Frankly I'm shocked so many of his supporters just ignore this, he's a fucking compulsive liar and you can't believe a fucking thing a compulsive liar says.

  12. Boomers should be lauded for one thing only, they are selfish pricks, aptly named the "me generation". Thanks to the rise of the more populous and much more selfless generation of millenials we'll hopefully stop and reverse the damage the Boomers have done to this country.

  13. Re: Now I know what self driving car not to buy on Toyota Raises Concerns About California Self-Driving Oversight, Calls It 'Preposterous' (reuters.com) · · Score: 1

    Silly goose, states rights only matter on some issues and safety regulation isn't one thats something the feds should stop states from doing. State rights apply to things like human rights not things that could cost businesses money.

  14. I agree with you completely but simple changes in the estate tax can't fix a problem where congress has carved swiss cheese into the tax code to make it possible to avoid the tax entirely. Until you change the estate tax to cover trusts and all the other loopholes there isn't much point. You know the system is broken when the Carnegie's are still one of the richest families in America multiple generations after the man that built that fortune died.

    Personally I think we need to not only restore a true estate tax but we need the Capital Tax that Pikety proposed, a 2-5% tax on capital assets would do much to help restore some sanity to the system.

  15. Re:Double standard on US Intel Officially Blames the Russian Government For Hacking DNC (theverge.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Nice to see the Trumpies out in full support of a foreign country directly tampering in a US Election, regardless of the fact that if we just let this go the next time will be even worse. The very idea of a foreign country interfering in our elections is an affront to our very democracy and a direct and present threat. But partisan people like you think it's no big deal because it hit the other guy.

    The next time it happens it might hit your side, think about that. And because of people like you our country won't have reacted this time so we will have directly encouraged the next attack.

    Let me let you in on something, this is a direct attack on our country. I'd be as outraged if it had happened to the green party or libertarian party. We cannot stand by and allow foreign countries to start tampering in our elections. We should respond directly to this attack, even if that involves a kinetic attack against the source.

  16. Re:how it appears is not always the truth on NSA Contractor Arrested in Possible New Theft of Secrets (nytimes.com) · · Score: 1

    You've never been able to believe anything the FBI says, it's not a new thing. Though this case is yet another example that you don't talk to the FBI without lawyers! The guy admitted he knew he wasn't supposed to have the data, that's going to add YEARS to his sentence because his conduct is now willful which is a sentence multiplier in sentencing.

    DON'T TALK TO THE FEDS. Say one word, LAWYER.

  17. Why did you..... on Interviews: Ask Martin Shkreli a Question · · Score: 1

    Why did you steal money from Retrophin to pay off investors in your failed hedge fund?

    Follow up question, How much will you enjoy prison? After all they like assholes in prison.

  18. Re:Probably not on 4chan Is Running Out of Money and Martin Shkreli Wants To Buy It (theverge.com) · · Score: 1

    The only way to bypass an ad-blocker is to serve the ads from the main site. Otherwise there is ALWAYS a way to block the ads, you simply can't serve them from alternative known domains and expect that they can't be blocked even by the simplest measures.

    The reason sites don't do this is twofold, it removes the ad middleman who makes the biggest cut of revenue and the site is then responsible for the ad content. When it's not served from their network they can claim they didn't know but serving the ads from their own sites negates that claim. The ad industry has dramatically failed to deal with the bad ad's and malware embedded in their servers along with all the annoying ad's such as autoplaying audio and video. These are are the reasons people are using ad-blockers and until the ad people get it through their thick heads that people will tolerate some advertising but not the aggressive shit they are spewing today.

    Oh and BTW to suggest Google wouldn't bypass all ad-blockers if they had the technology is the height of stupidity, they make all their money with ads, a decline in advertising rates directly harms Googles profit base.

  19. Re:It's a bit expensive...And for what? on Sandpoint Town Square Home To First Public Solar Roadways Panel Installation (newatlas.com) · · Score: 1

    To prove a couple idiot's from Idaho with no engineering experience can't design roadways. At least that's my takeaway.

  20. USB-C is pretty durable. It's what USB should have been from the start. If you use USB-C for a while and you go back and use a Micro-B you'll be astounded at the difference in quality of connection and how mushy and unsure Micro-B is. For a small connection USB-C is pretty damn durable and reliable.

  21. Re: Ionic Breeze Quadra Mark 2? on The Smog-Sucking Tower Has Arrived in China (vice.com) · · Score: 1

    You didn't bother to click on the first link to the archived 1990 article (before Clinton was elected) did you?

    You don't get to rewrite history to fit your agenda.

  22. Re:Blocking is illegal, but this isn't... on FCC Official Asks Agency To Investigate Ban On Journalists' Wi-Fi Personal Hotspots At Debate (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 2

    Nobody that entered the arena signed a contract. You wanna claim that show me one.

    If I was one of the reporters I would have run my wifi hotspot from inside a pocket or backpack.

    There is simply no reasonable way you can enforce a restriction like this without jamming wifi hotspots. You'd need a ton of gear and a bunch of trained people to find the people running hotspots (triangulating this down to a single person in a group of a hundred people using wifi would be a serious pain in the ass) and eject them and I don't' think for a minute they had this gear. I fully believe they turned on the jamming feature in their routers just like the hotels and then forced everyone to buy wifi access. Though they might have the property rights to eject people for using hotspots (this is not a settled issue, no one can regulate the airwaves except for the FCC and this is certainly regulating the use of wifi), they certainly didn't have the power to enforce such a ban without jammers.

    I hope to god if they were using Jammers they hit them with a $750K fine like they did the last Hotel that was caught using jammers.

  23. For the simple reason that there isn't enough bandwidth within the available spectrum. It's called physics.

  24. Re:Everything Trump does is bad on Trump Takes On 'Crooked Hillary' With Snapchat Geofilter (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The media is reporting on what Trump did because all the rules have apparently changed for him. Even 4 years ago if a presidential candidate had done some of the shit trump has done their campaign would be over. As an example, he attacked a gold star family, he's attacked people that have served this country (called McCain, a former POW, a coward), and he lies about everything, in fact he's lied more than any presidential candidate in history. If Clinton did even half this stuff the Fox news propaganda wing would be running full time talking about how she doesn't respect the military or any of the million comments Trump has made that are easily proved false or any of the personal attacks he's engaged in.

    And for what it's worth, those of us that are independent see something entirely different than the outrage machine coming from Fox News. I see a media that heavily favors Trump and lets Hillary off on nothing. The last town hall thing they did with NBC they were tossing Trump softballs and attacking Clinton and didn't call Trump on one of his lies. That's not even hard to do, half the shit he lies about is easily disproved and literally no journalist that interviews him calls him on it because he retaliates "for not being fair". In fact he's so effectively castrated the press that it's astounding the level of bullshit he gets away with.

  25. Re:Can we use a VM for all programs? on Windows 10 Will Soon Run Edge In a Virtual Machine To Keep You Safe (arstechnica.com) · · Score: 1

    The only permission choices you will get is whether they share all of your data with everyone that pays or just 99% of it.